Expertise

Archaeology, especially that of the American Southwest and southern Ethiopia; community formation and transitions in the millennium prior to European contact; social theory as it relates to questions of social and ethnic identity, ritual, migration and abandonment; ceramics and quantitative analyses; megaliths and stele.

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Honors

Dissertation Award
Society for American Archaeology

Organizational Affiliations

Department of Anthropology , College of Arts and Sciences , Washington State University

Education

Anthropology
1999 , PhD , Arizona State University
Anthropology
1993 , MA , Arizona State University